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TIL Thomas Edison proposed a giant phonograph be placed in the mouth of the Statue of Liberty so that it could welcome people to the US

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J15P1 TIL about Teri Horton, a truck driver who bought a painting for $5 in a thrift shop that turned out to be a potential Jackson Pollock. However, the painting has not yet been definitively verified. Horton died without selling the painting.
YmL7 TIL: Delivering pizza is more dangerous than firefighting.
npwG TIL that the first pregnancy tests on record were in Ancient Egypt. Women would pee on a field of wheat and barley. If the wheat sprouted, it was going to be a girl. If the barley sprouted, it was going to be a boy. If neither sprouted, the woman wasn’t pregnant.
Drnj TIL Bookkeeper is the only English word with three pairs touching.
5Ep TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.